If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.

Enlightenment is a destructive process.

If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.